TEL AVIV: Israel’s under-pressure prime minister traded blame with Hamas militants on Sunday for delays in reaching a Gaza truce accord as top US diplomat Antony Blinken landed in Tel Aviv to push for a deal. Making his ninth trip to the Middle East since the Gaza war began when Hamas attacked Israel in October, … Read more
Tens of thousands of commuters have begun riding on the Sydney Metro’s city section on Monday morning as the first new train line running underneath the city centre in more than four decades opened to the public. The first metro train service on the new section left Sydenham at 4.54am, travelling the newly opened stretch … Read more
Lord’s is a place of joy for Oval Invincibles once again. Saqib Mahmood was the chief menace, taking three wickets and conceding just a single in the space of seven consecutive deliveries to set up a 17-run victory over Southern Brave, back-to-back titles secured for the men’s side. The game was Brave’s under lights at … Read more
Black children are four times more likely to be strip-searched by police officers across England and Wales than their white counterparts, according to the latest nationwide figures disclosed by a watchdog. The children’s commissioner also found that children under the age of 15 are a bigger proportion of those subjected to intimate searches, official figures … Read more
Gavin Hopkins Joel Quince travelled from the Philippines to work as a deckhand with TN Trawlers Dozens of workers from around the world may have been trafficked into the UK to work for a small family-owned Scottish fishing firm, a BBC investigation has revealed. Thirty-five men from the Philippines, Ghana, India and Sri Lanka were … Read more